I'm the Public Contact Person, so the best thing is to contact me by personal message or e-mail. I'm usually able to respond in a matter of hours, if not immediately - and most problems here are not immediate emergencies (or if they are immediate emergencies, we tend to notice them ourselves).

Other than Max and Jeff (who do more tech stuff than moderation), I'm the only moderator who has a Mudcat e-mail address. You can usually tell if I'm here - Click on my name in any message I've posted, and you can see when I posted last. If I'm not, watch for posts from our volunteer moderators - people like Big Mick, Jeri, Bill D, Katlaughing, Giok, and others.

I confess that I was on vacation June 15-30. I was in Portugal, Spain, and France - and I stayed offline because Internet service was too darn expensive in my hotels, and because I was having too much fun to bother going online. I had free Internet in every motel when I drove around Lake Michigan last year, so nobody noticed I was away from home. I've found it's not a good idea to publicly announce my vacation plans in advance.

-Joe Offer-
joe@mudcat.org